- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:37:34 -0800
- To: Reinier van Kleij <rklei@acm.org>
- CC: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, www-international@w3.org
Reinier van Kleij wrote: > So, even when I am running Netscape on a Microsoft OS, it should not behave > itself this way. It should look at the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" > CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-6"> and say "Hey, this is iso-8859-6 so > let's render it". Netscape should not assume that all files it reads are > saved with the character set of the OS it runs on... Netscape Navigator does not support Arabic (yet). That is why it does not render iso-8859-6. > Again it seems that IE is a little more "democratic" than Netscape: at > least it recognizes the Content-type tag, so it does not force us to use > the MS code page 1256... Netscape has recognized META charset for quite a while. Probably longer than MSIE. However, we don't support Arabic yet. Erik
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